Your Presence
Lingers
Smooth as silk and sensitive
You slip right through my fingers.
When I reached out, I found you had gone.
Your presence always lingers.
I know that needs are multiplied.
When we’re not together
I can feel summer in the air.
A change in mood and weather.
When I hold you tight, my love.
We’re lost and move away.
Into a world of mystery
A place where we can’t stay.
I wrap my arms around my soul.
So I don’t disintegrate.
And peer out of my window.
Before it gets too late.
I sit inside the citadel.
A large and cavernous cave
Salved and smoothed with meditation
I am attempting to be brave.
Yesterday has come and gone.
Tomorrow’s an enigma.
Sometimes I’m blind and cannot see
Is that part of the stigma?
Down the empty avenues
The winds of time are changing.
Altering the scenery
That’s always rearranging.
Smooth as silk, you slip away
Here one minute next, you’re gone.
I summon the strength to gird my loins.
Reach high and carry on.
©
David Rudder
2022
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